DeWayne Wickham Column: Sen. Ted Cruz's political gambit

5:44 PM,
Oct. 4, 2013

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DeWayne Wickham

Like the one-time Cuban army sergeant who 80 years ago strong-armed his way to power in that Caribbean country, the Republican senator of Texas, and Canadian-born Cuban American, seems determined to depose the GOP's congressional leaders with a revolt of his own.

While Cruz couches the war he's waging as a fight against President Obama's Affordable Care Act, his tactics are aimed at empowering himself. By chiding Republican leaders for not following his lead, Cruz appears to be ripping a page from the playbook of Batista, the dictator ...